The study, presented to Congress earlier this month by the environmental consulting firm TerraChoice, found rampant greenwashing in every product category.
Congress is now considering how to curb the problem.
"Study: 98 Percent of "Eco-Friendly" Products Make Misleading Claims" [Mother Jones] (Thanks, Jennifer Hughes!)
[Photo: Shira Golding]
Carrie McLaren & Jason Torchinsky are coeditors of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. In previous lives, they worked together on the hopelessly obscure and now defunct Stay Free! magazine.
]]>Michael Jordan shoes WILL make you jump/play basketball like him.
(actual results may vary)
]]>Actually...it's much more efficient to get electricity from 1 huge power plant vs. a million tiny ones. You know all that heat your car produces? It's only 10% efficient... in a coal plant, the heat is reused = 55% efficiency, after taking power line waste into account.
]]>WHY is it okay to lie to people in order to get their money if you're a corporation, but if you're an individual it's fraud??
]]>Global Cooling awareness... I think it's insane that so many people don't remember that we were all supposed to freeze to death!
I'll invest with ya, we'll make millions from 2021 thru 2043 by selling obnoxiously dull looking winter jackets & igloo snow-brick building kits.
]]>(I was gonna say a list of the liars would be nice, but that would be a gigantor list, wouldn't it?)
I mean, I'd like to know that the stuff I might be buying is actually green, biodegradable, what-have-you.
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]]>@djkatscan: I was thinking the same thing.. They should be cheaper.
]]>@B1663R: It used to be that the word "Organic" on food labeling was a free-for-all and there were no regulations. But just a few years ago the FDA created strict guidelines for those claming a food is organic.
While there have been a couple of cases of mix ups (e.g. a non-organic ingredient going into a product that is supposed to be organic) for the most part the regulations seem to be working.
But just a few years ago before the law began any food company could say "organic" on any food at all.
]]>@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: Why does nobody seem to remember that? what was it that was causing the cooling back then? that part I can't remember.
]]>Carbon offsets are a copy of the "indulgences" sold by parts of the Christian church in the middle ages that allowed the wealthy to sin all they wanted and still get the express lane to heaven. Scams all around.
]]>"The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs."
]]>And, yeah, the whole "carbon offsets" thing is ridiculous.
]]>I saw a Ziploc baggie commercial, and they said they used "less plastic, but with no additional cost"
So a plastic product uses less plastic, but I can still pay the same price for the product? Lucky me.
@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: You are a true environmentalist and a hero to us all.
]]>It's about perception, NOT reality, just like most other forms of marketing.
]]>@Scoobatz: But its painted green! If its green its good! thats the TV box tolded me...
]]>I just bought what I was led to believe was an eco-friendly CFC-powered smog machine. Maybe I shouldn't have trusted the label claims.
]]>its not about Eco or going green. Its about collecting THE green!
]]>There was a small error in the headline. Hope you don't mind, I went ahead and fixed it for ya!
]]>An insidious, yet often effective, marketing tactic to say the least.
]]>Just like all religions, Environmentalism gets used and abused by people who will twist the message for their own personal or corporate gain.
Now, send me $5 and I'll plant a tree.
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